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Airport users urge council to keep fuel service as budget draft omits purchases
Summary
Museum operators, pilots and airport business owners told the council that a draft budget that initially omitted fuel purchases threatens the airport—s viability; speakers said the airport fund is overdrawn but urged the city to continue buying fuel or find interim measures while exploring an authority or county partnership.
Local aviation stakeholders and business owners urged the Lock Haven City Council to preserve fuel service at the city airport after the council's draft budget showed no fuel purchases budgeted in its initial version.
Ron Rommel, president of the Piper Aviation Museum, told the council the city's apparent plan to stop buying fuel "makes absolutely no financial sense" and asked whether the omission was "a result of poor management or a deliberate attempt to destroy our airport?" He said loss of fuel sales…
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